Applies to:

Solaris SPARC Operating System - Version 10 3/05 and laterInformation in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

On some circumstances, you may want to change the current loadbalancing type, from round-robin to logical-block for instance.

Logical block MPxIO load balancing method [ID 1004918.1] clearly explain why to do this and how to perform this change by modifying some configuration files; these modifications will be taken into effect once the host has been rebooted.

Can the same change be made on the fly ? Can i change the load-balance type on the fly ?

When looking at mpathadm manpages, one can read that mpathadm should be able to change the load-balance type on the fly with the "modify" subcommand :